He
Who Gets Slapped, starring master character actor Lon Chaney,
opened in Detroit at the Adams theater on Sunday, January 18, 1925. It
earlier opened in New York City on November 9, 1924. He
Who Gets Slapped also featured John Gilbert and Norma Shearer
and was the first film completely produced by the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
studio.

"Lon Chaney adds another fine performance
to his long list of splendid characterizations in his role of the clown
in the dramatic picture,
'He Who Gets Slapped,' which Detroit saw for the first time Sunday in
the Adams theater," wrote Roy Elltarcotte in The Detroit Free Press
on January 19, 1925. "The picture is far out of the beaten path of photoplay
attractions with which we have been bored for several months, but so fine
is it in every way that it should take its place among the best pictures
of the old year."

"Lon
Chaney is back in all his gloomy glory this week at the Adams, where 'He
Who Gets Slapped,' a picturization of the play of the same name, is holding
forth," read a review in The Detroit News on January 19, 1925.
"From the weird and gruesome hunchback of the bell tower of Notre Dame,
Chaney becomes a circus clown-a tragic figure who proves his true worth
at the finish by saving the heroine from an interloper."

He
Who Gets Slapped played at the Majestic for four days, along with
the comedy The
Lunch Brigade; newsreel footage of recent tornadoes; an Aesop's
Fable cartoon; a Pathé Review; Kinograms; the
Majestic Sympho-Jazz Orchestra; and the Keith stage feature of Gus Bartram
and Vertner Saxton, "True Blue 'Good Scouts' From the Blue Grass State."